Johannesburg, 16 Mar 2005
Harvey Jones Systems, the local distributor of ProClarity`s range of business analytics products and solutions, has introduced a new range of products to its offering with the signing of a master distribution agreement with Corda Technologies.
In terms of the agreement, Harvey Jones will be a distributor of Corda`s data presentation solutions in sub-Saharan Africa, in line with Corda`s strategy of expanding into the African market.
"This market presents us with exceptional business opportunities and we are relying on the regional expertise of Harvey Jones to sell our products into the territory," says Neal Williams, CEO of Corda Technologies. "Harvey Jones will also play a vital role in training additional resellers and their sales and implementation forces."
The US-based company has three product families which Harvey Jones will sell in sub-Saharan Africa: PopChart, OptiMap and Highwire. These solutions allow data to be displayed as images, providing customers with visuals to perform analysis and more easily understand their data.
Corda`s PopChart and OptiMap enable the creation of flexible and scalable interactive graphs, maps and charts; its Highwire solutions enable server-based HTML to PDF conversions and the creation of PDF documents with descriptive text for the visually impaired.
"The Corda products are highly complementary to our existing solution set," says Keith Jones, MD of Harvey Jones Systems. "They extend our data visualisation capabilities and increase the user community we can reach with data warehousing and business intelligence solutions. The additional functionality Corda offers will allow us to enhance existing solutions and provide our partners with additional options to penetrate new markets. The server-based pricing of Corda`s products ensures this can be done cost-effectively."
PopChart, a server-based tool set, is Corda`s premier application for the creation and delivery of large volumes of sophisticated interactive charts and graphs from any database or Web application server to any browser.
It generates graphs and charts in Flash, SVG, JPEG, TIFF, WBMP, EPS and PNG. Output of charts and graphs is done in PDF format so images can be embedded into a Highwire PDF document.
"PopChart can contain a variety of graph images fed with on-demand dynamic data and can create animated graphs and charts as needed," Jones says. "Users can enable text boxes, callout notes or pop-up text to provide explanations for graphs or charts and drill down capabilities allow graphs and charts to be linked together. The application was developed entirely using Java, and can be rapidly deployed on any platform."
OptiMap is a server-based mapping solution for any kind of geographic or spatial relationship-based data. It integrates dynamic data in a geographic format for display in a Web browser.
Highwire allows companies to convert properly designed HTML or XHTML Web pages into PDF documents that retain on-screen formatting. It features:
* The creation of page headers, footers and page numbers;
* Automatic carry-over of table headings on multi-page tables;
* Nested tables support;
* Automatic adjustment of paper orientation and size to accommodate wide documents; and
* High-speed operation with caching and optional clustering.
"We have seen a tremendous rise in the volume of data that companies are dealing with, and traditional two-dimensional methods of browsing data are becoming inadequate," Jones says. "Corda is ideally positioned from both a technology and visualisation perspective to address this issue."
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